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7. What kind of tissue lines our skin and what is its important function?
a. Nerve tissue; responsible for reflexes
b. Epithelial; protection from ultraviolet radiation
c. Nerve tissue; receive stimuli on the skin
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d. Epithelial; produce new cells when peeled off
8. At metaphase of the first meiotic division, the chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibers
as ____________.
a. double chromatids
b. non-homologous pairs
c. single chromatid strand
d. a tetrad of chromatids
9. Which type of cell would probably provide the best opportunity to study lysosomes?
a. Leaf
b. Nerve
c. Muscle
d. White blood
10. Which best describes meiosis as another form of cell division with accompanying nuclear
changes?
a. The nuclear changes follow one another indefinitely.
b. Each new cell has double the amount from both parents.
c. The nucleoli break up into two parts and disappear.
d. Each new cell has half the number of chromosomes.
12. Which is the energy storage compound used to do all forms of work of the cell?
a. Electron
b. Adenine
c. Nicotinamide
d. Adenosine triphosphate
13. Meiosis reduces genetic make-up by half. What process brings it back to diploid state?
a. Menstruation
b. Fertilization
c. Ejaculation
d. Mitosis
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c. phospholipid bilayer
d. integral protein
19. Which plants formed the vast coal beds during the carboniferous period?
a. Lycopods
b. Conifers
c. Angiosperms
d. Gymnosperms
21. Chlorophyll appears green because the green portion of light is ___________.
a. dispersed
b. absorbed
c. refracted
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d. reflected
22. The end products of dark reaction phase of photosynthesis are ADP and ________.
a. carbon dioxide
b. sugar
c. carbon
d. nitrogen
24. Which is the universal energy source of the cell of all living things?
a. Carbon
b. ATP
c. H2O
d. PGAL
25. When the staminate flower is found in one plant and the pistillate flower on another, the plants
is described as ___________.
a. complete
b. monoecious
c. robust
d. dioecious
28. The dark reaction phase of photosynthesis consists of a series of chemical reactions which end
up with the formation of a 3-carbon sugar called ____________.
a. ADP
b. NADPH
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c. ATP
d. PGAL
29. Which cell structure regulates the opening and closing of the stomata?
a. Phloem
b. Xylem
c. Companion
d. d. Guard
30. Spraying some plants with combination of auxins and gibberellins will ____________.
a. promote ripening of fruits
b. result to seed dormancy
c. allow division of cells
d. enlarge fruit growth
32. Fruit growers often propagate their plants by a sexual means because the resulting off spring
will __________.
a. be an improved variety than the parent
b. show little variation from the parent
c. bear larger fruit than the parent
d. show no environmental variation
34. What process is cause for the upward movement of water in very tall trees?
a. Transpiration
b. Osmosis
c. Turgor pressure
d. Air pressure
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c. Pitcher plant
d. Kataka-taka
41. Large colonies belonging to class Anthozoa secrete hard skeletons of lime which later form
reefs.
a. Sea anemone
b. Obelia
c. Coral
d. Jellyfish
42. When body parts are paired on either side of the body; this type of symmetry is called _________.
a. Dorso-ventral
b. Bilateral
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c. Radial
d. Dorsal
43. What substance do leeches secrete which keeps the blood they feed on liquid state?
a. Hemoglobin
b. Ecdysone
c. Anticoagulin
d. Fibrinogen
44. One who specializes in all kinds of fishes and their characteristics has expertise on
_______________.
a. Taxonomy
b. histology
c. entomology
d. ichthyology
46. What is a distinguishing characteristic of Homo sapiens over the lower mammals?
a. Blood vessels
b. Sensitive skin
c. Large brain
d. Endoskeleton
47. What kind of adaptation enables the walking stick to elude its enemies?
a. Aggressive mimicry
b. Aggressive adaptation
c. Protective mimicry
d. Protective coloration
49. Which are the hosts of Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum?
a. Cow and man
b. Man and dog
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c. Cow and pig
d. Man and pig
50. Two organisms can be identified as belonging to the same species if they can ____________.
a. eat the same kind of food
b. breed in a natural setting
c. tolerate one another in nature
d. survive together in nature
Answer Key
Biological Science - 6
1. C 26. D
2. B 27. D
3. C 28. D
4. B 29. D
5. D 30. D
6. B 31. B
7. D 32. A
8. D 33. D
9. D 34. A
10. D 35. C
11. D 36. D
12. D 37. A
13. B 38. C
14. C 39. C
15. D 40. A
16. C 41. C
17. D 42. B
18. C 43. C
19. A 44. D
20. C 45. D
21. D 46. C
22. B 47. D
23. D 48. C
24. B 49. D
25. B 50. B
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